scottman's vlc-gtk could probably do it to if he has added a record option: --sout file/muxer:stream.xyz
(my built in webcam is fried or I could probably add it myself)_________________Web Programming - Pet Packaging 100 & 101

WiFi works fine on several computers / wifi cards I have tried. However when frugal installed on a USB stick the WiFi is not reconnected at boot up.
It fails to find a live connection. I tried playing with some of the sleep timings in the rc.d/network script but no joy.

Barry and testers,
Here are my revised firmware packages for all 3 linuxant modem types. The scripts and "nvm" data are installed to their ultimate locations, leaving the placing of configuration files and initialization scripts to the tarball/directory, to be done only if needed. This way, those files are not copied into the top layer to operate, saving some pup-save space.

The special modprobe-configuration files are now retained through a pupdial "erase" of the current modem selection, but can be removed by a second "erase" done when there is no modem already selected. This is useful if you change modem hardware, so need a different set of firmware.

This improves the reliability of the DGC driver, which provides the modem sounds for many USB modems. However, on first boot of a fresh puppy session as well as after a pupdial "erase", the sound was not produced, due to the timing of driver loading. Now, only the initial boot-up is mute. I went into more detail about the DGC package on page 43:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=653800#653800

Before installing the firmware packages, please install the related "cleanup" packages so that any testing is more valid than it would be if the residue were to remain, although the modems should work with the residue.

Although I recognize that the hcfpcimodem is of limited value due to its maximum speed of 14.4 kb unless linuxant is paid $20, it may still be useful for faxing. I hope to look into how to do that, and am open to suggestions via PM. We should discuss that in another thread to avoid hijacking this one. Does anyone care about the HCF modem or faxing?
Richard

EDIT: Barry, I have now included a tarball of source difference listings to the page-44 posting of the drivers for k3.2.29, for your information.

Update 10/14/2012: Corrected the pet package for HCF modem firmware. Note that all 3 (DGC, HCF, HSF) firmware packages have been updated to the versions (20121004) in the modem_firmware_packages-complete_set tarball on page 49

Yeh... integrate this with Precord, interlace the outputs and here we have the brand new gtkdialog-based "Pwebcam"

Plan A:
Just get the 6MB libgtk-3 with Guvcview from the Ubuntu repo and it hope will not mess up anything else (limited testing shows is OK)
I wonder how big guvcview is going to be if compiled with libgtk3 "static"..._________________Kids all over the world go around with an XO laptop. They deserve one puppy (or many) too

Yeh... integrate this with Precord, interlace the outputs and here we have the brand new gtkdialog-based "Pwebcam" :wink:

Actually, in between times, I have been playing around with ffmpeg to capture webcam video and sound (been using ffplay for video output). But not planning to bloat Precord itself beyond its intended audio recording/playback. One tool for one job. For just recording sound in such an app though, Precord can of course be used or integrated the way 01micko did it in pupRadio/pupTelly (i.e. a Precord button appears in the app if Precord is installed, which is also the mechanism I use in Precord itself to integrate it with Pschedule). Nevertheless, a dedicated app using Precord code is what I have in mind for my own purposes at least (which I'll publish more generally of course - if it appears to turn out useful). I imagine quite a few are writing their own gtkdialog webcam apps - I hope so!

I can't help thinking that for video recording the following is a better way to go though:

Notes:
1. The SL modem package contains the existing version of the slmodemd support daemon, which appears to work just fine. The version compiled from newer source also works, although the driver (slamr) code does not yet compile. When I resolve that, I will re-upload the daemon when I upload the driver.

2. The LT package is unchanged internally. However, the driver itself compiles cleanly but does not function correctly.

3. I am upgrading the intel 536 and 537 firmware to manage the issue of matching the version to the processor type (Uni vs. SMS) because a mismatch crashes the PC. Only the uniprocessor-compiled version can be used on single-CPU PCs and SMS-compiled on multiprocessors. I am not sure whether they must be compilied on the matching processor type, or just require the matching version of kernel source. The packages will be added here when they are verified.
Richard

Barry,
My plan is to create a (make_modem_module) script to automate the building of the linuxant, intel and agrmodem (?) modules to place them in the correct directories. Is there already a standard method of such automation? If so, can I get access to it?
Richard

Update 10/14/2012: Removed source tarball which is replaced by the version on page 49. Original contained the results of a build, while the replacement is the result of "make clean" to remove the build results.

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